Gabrielle Lott-Rogers Archives

Hattie McDaniel (Gabrielle Lott-Rogers) stands left in front of a bar, in a vibrant blue gown, with a gardenia in her hair. Dottie (Mildred Marie Langford) stands right behind the bar, wearing a black-and-white maid's outfit. She is looking at a piece of paper containing a thank-you speech for the Oscars that the studio wrote for McDaniel.

#OscarsSoWhite

by Kerry Reid February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

This past fall, TimeLine offered a blistering revival of Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind, in which a Black actress in a 1950s Broadway play about lynching (penned and directed by white men, naturally) takes a stand against the insulting stereotypes in the script and the microaggressions in the rehearsal room. They’ve followed that up with […]

Arts & Culture

Haven hands us an extra-tense Titus Andronicus

by KT Hawbaker March 3, 2020August 18, 2021

Complicating gender and racial identity adds texture to the gory Shakespearean stew.

Arts & Culture

Too many explanations spoil all the surprises in Future Echoes

by Max Maller May 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Also, don’t you just hate when zombies ruin your dinner party?

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